Pirated CDs and DVDs worth Rs 18 million seized

These CDs and DVDs now stored in a repository located at central fire station will be destroyed once the dependent files related to legal implications will be resolved against the sellers of these illegal products.

When asked by the journalists in Monday Hector Tuyau, which oversees the department, argued that the APU will continue to take a tough compared to the illegal sale of these products. His department has, in fact, intensify its hunt for fraudsters with the arrival of Christmas and New Year normally characterized by increased sales in the field of non-conforming copies of CDs and DVDs. 

The claims of the dealers involved are astronomical, let there be heard in the office of the APU. The last one dates back to December 23 where damage amounting Rs 100 million were claimed to APU from a large seizure of counterfeit clothing considered.

The elements of the APU does not yet let go and continue making still tracking down outlaws, and then refer them to justice. The local stations are currently overcrowded barracks of counterfeit goods and seized. Everything is well kept in eleven sealed containers and three shelters. Their value is estimated at several hundred million rupees. 

The men of the chief inspector Tuyau traveling across the country continue to track vendors brown. Their efforts have proven successful in several cases. The number of seizures of pirated CDs and DVDs has increased since the new law banning their sale is already in force and that the moratorium granted by the government to remove these products have ceased. The men of the CI pipe seized last year, about 150,000 CDs and DVDs fraudulent.

When journalists asked the CI Hector Tuyau in Tuesday, he said that some will try to do good business during the festive period but that they are informed: the men of the APU will be merciless. It is in the big cities of the island, Port-Louis, Centre de Flacq and Rose-Hill as CD and DVD are reproduced as sold. Most large seizures are made in Port Louis and Rose-Hill. However, the sale of counterfeit goods represents a considerable loss for the Mauritius Society of Authors (MASA) in terms of copyright. A batch of three pirated DVDs were available until recently to Rs 50 while the price of a pirated DVD not close to Rs 300. This is especially the local artists who complain about the considerable loss when people buy illegal copies. The APU warns those who are arrested for illegal sale of CDs and DVDs are liable to a fine of Rs 500,000.